Wednesday, August 22, 2007

BBC forced to remove 'bastard' slur about Jesus from its website

Oh Sweet Jesus! Umm... Oh Bastard Jesus!

I read a headline BBC stops calling Jesus a bastard in Digg Offbeat News. I thought they (BBC folks) had written something about Jesus being a bastard. No. Actually, it's "member of the public" who wrote:

"Are you a christian? You do know that jesus had to hide all his short life he lived in those promised land because his tribesmen used to call him fatherless, ridiculed him for being a B-A-S-T-A-R-D..."

posted by coloneartist

So, BBC removed the comment and others about jesus being gay...sorry, I meant jesus being a bastard.
I'm awed that the BBC did this. Comment moderation is of course necessary at some point but still.... they can't prove jesus wasn't a bastard so why delete it? :) As an alternative, I don't think closing the topic would've helped, either.

I leave you with a comment from another member of the public (Go, Nathan!):

A ******* is a person whose parents, at the time of their birth, were not married to each other.

So if God was Jesus' father and never married Mary then Jesus was a *******.

It seems strange that those who claim to have the power of the one true God(tm) on their side have such thin skins!

Nathan D Lacey, London, UK
this comment was copied from thisislondon.co.uk

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